Seated male couple, Naples, Italy
Henri Cartier-Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1908 - 2004

Henri Cartier-Bresson was a French humanist photographer considered a master of candid photography, and an early user of 35 mm film. He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.

Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947. In the 1970s he took up drawing-he had studied painting in the 1920s.

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